University of Pennsylvania students have joined the New York Times in fisking a recent article by Kate Taylor about the “Hook-Up culture” at their campus.
Writer Susan Walsh takes a look at alternative statistics and additional student comments, which run counter to what Taylor indicated was the current state of student...
We recently covered the story of a nursing student at Pima Community College (PCC), who filed a lawsuit claiming that she was illegally suspended after she complained that her classmates were speaking in Spanish and orally translating English to Spanish so excessively that she was failing to learn.
The administrator responsible for...
When Chicago lawyer Matt Farmer recently cross examined Annette Gurley, the Chicago Public School System’s Chief of Teaching and Learning, he uncovered a startling fact about Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education.
Startling to him, perhaps. Those of us who pay close attention to President Obama’s usual priorities in selecting high...
Perhaps this young scholar will be signing up for Masculinity Studies?
Eric Owens of The Daily Caller had this little doozy recently, ICYMI: “Craigslist mom seeks hottie to take Harvard-bound son’s virginity in exchange for new car.”
Everybody knows that Craigslist is the best place in the world to find random, possibly diseased...
In May, we reported that students at Swarthmore College and three other institutions had filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education over the institutions’ alleged mishandling of sexual misconduct cases.
Now, federal education officials are investigating Swarthmore’s handling of sexual harassment allegations following these complaints.
Department of Education spokesman Jim Bradshaw said...
American Jewish students are too often the targets of faith-based harassment, as when a Hamas student union posts cartoon depicting Jews as trash.
Now that harassment seems to have gone international, as in the case of one young scholar who wanted to travel to the United Kingdom for a work opportunity; The...
We chronicled the story of Meghan Lanker-Simons, the University of Wyoming student charged with interference with a police investigation after she allegedly posted on an anonymous social media page that she would like to engage in angry sexual intercourse with someone named….. “Meg Lanker Simons.”
The Daily Caller’s Eric Owns share a...
File this story under “Diversidad y la Tolerancia.”
A nursing student at Pima Community College (PCC) has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was illegally suspended after she complained that her classmates were speaking in Spanish and orally translating English to Spanish so excessively that she was failing to learn.
In early April,...
Given the wave of cheating scandals in this country, and the cavalier attitude toward honest scholarship at the international level, it is good to see one organization take some initiative in fighting this trend.
The College Board and Educational Testing Service has invalidated more than 200 Advanced Placement tests at a San...
One of the cities targeted for the recently organized “Justice for Trayvon Martin” rallies was Los Angeles.
Westwood, the LA suburb that is home to the University of California-Los Angeles, was a site of one of these demonstrations. The Daily Bruin student reporter, Amanda Schallert, filed this report:
At least one person was...
The Washington Redskins have not had an easy time of it recently.
First, its very name has been attacked by the “PC Police”, to the point they are surveying fans to determine if they should change it.
Now, their quarterback has left on his honeymoon and faces a potential sex scandal upon his...
We recently noted that University of California’s students were planning to protest the selection of former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as head of the system while she was meeting the governing Board of Regents in San Francisco.
They did, and several protesters were arrested during the demonstration. Robby Soave of The...
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are two of the Republican Party’s most iconic and respected members, who have each inspired millions of women to get involved in conservative causes and political activism.
Subsequently, they are two of the biggest targets of progressives entrenched in the education system. College students at a conference...
Rolling Stone magazine has manged to do something nearly impossible: Bring the country together!
Nationwide, enormous outrage is still being expressed at the magazine’s cover portrayal of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a teen icon, as well as its pop-star treatment in the cover story.
Tsarnaev went to the University of Massachusetts...
At College Insurrection, we have taken a good look at the nationwide campus “Hook-Up Culture”, covering everything from biochemistry to Facebook pages.
Slate contributor Amanda Hess recently fisked The New York Times piece on the subject, also making many excellent points in her analysis:
In the New York Times this weekend, Kate Taylor...
Wyoming state officials recently released hundreds of previously confidential pages of a highly critical report about the leadership of Cindy Hill, Wyoming’s popularly-elected superintendent of public instruction.
As the emails indicate employees feel the need to use bear spray and baseball bats around Hill, she is surely a nominee for “Bad Boss...
We recently highlighted the “pornification” of our nation’s campuses at College Insurrection.
The Family Research Council recently presented a lecture addressing this troubling trend.
The conservative Family Research Council (FRC) on Wednesday hosted a lecture aimed at informing students on the “dangers” of pornography on their college campuses.
“It is in the nature of...
Obamacare is making the ailing higher education system worse, and has just claimed a new victim: Purdue University.
Even though Obamacare isn’t set to go into effect until October, Purdue University is already looking at a potential $2.8 million bill as a result.
The Indiana university will have to bear that cost to...
As Andrew Branca corrects fallacies associated with Florida’s “Stand Your Ground Law” on NPR, alleged supporters of Treyvon Martin have stormed a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles and other reports of unrest are coming from other cities around the nation.
Meanwhile, Robert Stacey McCain is doing some investigative reporting on his own, which...
After learning that a faculty member at San Jose State was found by the university to have inappropriately touched a student, 600 students have signed a petition to protest that he’s still teaching.
This is despite the fact that no charge was filed against the instructor after police concluded their investigation.
Lauren Ingeno...
A group of Virginia auditors could save a lot of time and some money if they just contacted Professor Glenn Reynolds on the force that is driving up college costs.
But, the team intends to go forward with their quest for more culprits.
At various times in the past few years,...
It’s way too early in the year for “Festivus”, but College Republicans had an “airing of the grievances” anyway:
The College Republicans National Committee, an independent, section 527 political organization, has criticized the GOP for its lack of leadership, inability to communicate its party identity and its difficulty attract...
